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Animals that Start with G

Name these animals that start with the letter G.
This quiz is not based on scientific taxonomy!
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Last updated: September 11, 2018
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First submittedOctober 10, 2012
Times taken68,808
Average score72.2%
Rating4.19
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Clue
Animal
Tallest land animal
Giraffe
Type of shark from "Jaws"
Great White Shark
Largest primate
Gorilla
Orange domesticated carp
Goldfish
North American brown bear
Grizzly Bear
Common beach bird
Gull
Its liver is eaten as foie gras
Goose
Male of the above
Gander
Breed of dog used for racing
Greyhound
Tiny insect whose swarms are
known as "clouds"
Gnat
Clue
Animal
Venomous desert "monster"
Gila Monster
Domestic animal that supposedly eats
almost anything
Goat
Has its own day on February 2nd
Groundhog
When swarming, they are called locusts
Grasshopper
Speedy and graceful antelope
Gazelle
Small lizard. Some have incredibly
adhesive toe pads
Gecko
Another name for a wildebeest
Gnu
Asian rodent kept as a house pet
Gerbil
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Level 46
Feb 17, 2013
Fun quiz! Although, the "it's" for the groundhog clue should be "its".
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Level 71
Feb 17, 2013
And venomous is spelled with an O.
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Level ∞
Apr 21, 2014
These have been fixed!
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Level 67
Feb 18, 2013
No gnus? Ah, well, no gnus is good news, I guess.
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Level 74
Sep 17, 2013
Ha!
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Level ∞
Jan 14, 2015
I added gnu!
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Level 77
Jan 23, 2015
Well that's good news
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Level 64
Aug 31, 2015
No, no gnus is good news; gnus is no good news.
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Level 38
May 11, 2015
no gnat either!
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Level 55
Aug 31, 2015
Yeah, but no gnats isn't necessarily good gnats, so I'm afraid your argument is invalid. Gnats all I can tell you.
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Level 38
Aug 31, 2015
rotflol!
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Level 40
Sep 2, 2015
Is that a Gary Gnu reference?
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Level 48
Nov 13, 2015
It's the Great Space Coaster, get on board!! Yay!!! Other people know that show!!!
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Level 68
Feb 9, 2014
Goats? The clue is misleading since one tends to think of rats or pigs as animals that eat almost anything. Goats don't even come close.
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Level 37
May 2, 2014
To fit into this quiz, they would have to be gats and gigs.
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Level 25
Sep 2, 2015
A goat once ate a plastic bag out of my pocket
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
Pigs are actually kind of picky, and rats are just opportunistic, but even the most loved, pampered, and well cared-for domestic goat will eat a tin can dropped on the ground and relish it as if it was the damn chef's selection at Le Cirque.
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Level 82
May 19, 2018
Goat was the first thing I thought of.
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Level 60
Aug 10, 2023
Not the first I thought of, but the most 'right' one that I thought of easily.
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Level 75
Jul 26, 2018
We must have gourmet goats. Our Boers are very selective in what they eat. They won't even eat our garden trimmings but they love trees and bushes, which is why we bought them, to keep pasture edges and pond areas cleared. (We have one called Houdini because she is an escape artist, and she eats my flowers on her occasional trips over the fence. I'm threatening to change her name to Barbecued.)
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Level 68
Oct 17, 2018
I had a goat that ate a safety pin once. Fortunately the pin was closed, and the goat lived many more years after that without any ill effects that I could tell. I now have twin goats named Houdini and Alcatraz , so Houdini must be a universally good name for a goat. :)
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Level 75
Jan 1, 2021
I typed goat at the start just as a guess - I definitely wouldn't have got it from the clue.
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Level 44
Mar 24, 2014
A male goose is not called a 'Gander' it is referred to as a 'Gosling'
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Level 48
Mar 24, 2014
Incorrect. A male goose is a gander. A young goose is a gosling.
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Level 19
May 3, 2014
I can think of two more mammals and one bird: Gerbil, Genet, Grackle
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Level 77
Mar 31, 2015
and gnat
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Level 38
May 11, 2015
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Level ∞
Mar 17, 2018
Added Gerbil and Gnat.
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Level 90
Nov 24, 2014
Gerenuk is another option for gazelle. It's a type of gazelle.
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Level 60
May 18, 2015
no gophers?
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Level 56
Aug 31, 2015
I didn't know that locusts are swarming grasshoppers. Interesting.
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Level 55
Aug 31, 2015
Never heard of a 'gila monster'.
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Level 75
Aug 31, 2015
It lives in the desert of the US and Mexico.
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Level 16
Jul 26, 2018
i don't see any
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Level 72
Mar 18, 2018
Not heard of one either. Learn something new everyday.
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Level 66
Sep 1, 2015
Please allow the word gecko to be spelled gekko as well.
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Level 75
Mar 2, 2017
Only if your gecko is named Gordon.
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Level 72
Jul 27, 2020
And doesn't sell insurance in the US.
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Level 68
Sep 1, 2015
Can you please also have "ganet" as a possible answer for beach bird
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Level 71
Oct 5, 2015
Gannet
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Level 74
Mar 2, 2017
4th question: Orange Domesticated Cat

Answer : Garfield

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Level 61
Sep 27, 2017
100% with 1:42 remaining, would have been a lot quicker if i knew hot to spell Gnu.....
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Level 37
Oct 3, 2017
Wow that's funny...got the same result as you....16 / 16 with 1:42 left and the very last question almost prevented me from getting 100%. Ended up with a lucky guess. Hoped you enjoyed this quiz as well.
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Level 34
Nov 29, 2017
Goanna? Gibon?
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Level 25
Feb 13, 2018
Why not grants antelope? meets the definition...
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Level 86
Mar 24, 2018
It's rather called Grant's gazelle. I don't know if that is accepted but it would be easy to simply try gazelle from there.
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Level 24
Mar 9, 2018
Took me too long to remember the goose one... Whoo
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Level 60
May 19, 2018
grouse ?
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Level 23
Jun 14, 2018
got them all with 2:51 left!
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Level 63
Jul 26, 2018
Could you change the clue for Gerbil to involve/include a reference to Richard Gere? I would never guess such a question otherwise.
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Level 76
Oct 12, 2018
Surprised so few people managed to get "gerbil". Are they not that popular as pets in the US?
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Level 86
Oct 12, 2018
Very popular. I just had no idea they were Asian in origin.
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Level 71
Oct 12, 2018
I kept trying Guinea Pig because I forgot about gerbils, LOL.
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Level 66
Oct 12, 2018
No geoduck??
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Level 71
Oct 12, 2018
Just finished watching 'Groundhog Day' (for the umpteenth time)........ and February 2nd really stood out.
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Level 72
Oct 12, 2018
A guinea pig is a rodent kept as a house pet. I'm sure you could find them in Asia.
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Level 88
Oct 12, 2018
Actually they are from South America
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Level 81
Oct 14, 2018
They're sold and kept as pets here in Asia. They're not eaten nor native to Asia as in South America.
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Level 41
Oct 12, 2018
Technically the largest primate isn't the gorilla. Going my maximum eight humans are the largest primate. The heaviest human weighed somewhere in the area of 1400 pounds while the heaviest gorilla came in just shy of 900 pounds. According to a quick google search anyway.
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Level 63
Dec 3, 2019
I think it's on average. Not largest ever.
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Level 60
Jul 6, 2019
Guinea pig!
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Level 57
Jul 6, 2019
Add guinea pig!!
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Level 68
Jul 10, 2019
Almost wish "garbage bird" was an acceptable type-in for gull.
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Level 52
Jun 24, 2020
I read "breed of dog used for racing" and immediately thought husky. Greyhounds, I've only heard of a few times. And I had no idea gerbils were Asian.
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Level 33
Feb 24, 2021
Domestic animal that supposedly eats almost anything

Golden Retriever? :)

I tried but it didn't work.

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Level 67
Aug 27, 2021
Gila Monsters are cool
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Level 57
Jan 7, 2022
Nice quiz apart from Gila Monster and Groundhog. Not universally known except within America. Shame.
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Level 80
Mar 1, 2022
If we're talking about universally, none of these species live on Mars :)
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Level 76
May 21, 2022
i'm a g-nu

i'm a g-nu

the g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo

i'm a g-nu

how'd you do?

you wreally ought to k-now w-ho's w-ho

i'm a g-nu

(spelled G N U)

i'm g-not a camel, g-nor a kangaroo

so let me introduce

i'm g-neither man nor moose

g-no, g-no, g-no, i'm a g-nu

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Level 47
Dec 15, 2022
Got everything immediately except for goldfish. It took an embarrassing amount of time to register *slaps forehead*
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Level 41
Feb 28, 2023
Is it possible to allow "seagull" for "gull"
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Level 60
Aug 10, 2023
I hope I'm the only one who tried Golfin for the beach bird.